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Monday Night Irish Class — November 19, 2007
Irish Class. November 19, 2007.
Checked against Nick’s official notes.
First activity
Adult Entertainment
The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street”, now out on DVD.
“These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
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A Talented Friend
I went to a friend’s CD release party this evening. Lots of fun. She can write and sing bawdy songs (and others) in both English and Irish.
Not exactly a day of rest
Change of Plans
Looks like I will not be driving to Bloomington today to recycle our old computers. The event shut down early because of an overwhelming community response.
Progress on various fronts
Monday Night Irish Class — November 12, 2007
Irish Class, November 12, 2007
Irish Class. November 12, 2007.
Checked
against Nick’s
Official Version.
The conversation in the first hour was a “debate” (conspóid)
on the merits of reading books vs. watching television and movies, and
talk about changes in the Twin Cities Metro in the last decade.
Geek goes to Church
The Psalm this morning at St. Mary’s was Psalm 17. In particular I noticed verse 3. In the translation we heard it went:
Weigh my heart, summon me by night
melt me down, you will find no impurity in me.
“Melt me down…find no impurity…” What did I think of?…. That the Psalms were written before the time of Archimedes (True, BTW).
Friday Night and Saturday
I must have been exhausted: I went to bed at 8:30 last night and slept until 9:30 this morning.
It has been a pleasant day in a low-key kind of way. Progress on various fronts for the house and colgaffneyis, and spending a lot of time with mia_mcdavid.
Mia wants me to make a weaver’s bench to sit on in front of her loom. So we went to the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where there was a loom just like what she has here and a bench that she finds comfortable when using it. Key dimension: Height 25″.
One bit of geekery: I got the streaming audio from “A Prairie Home Companion” to work under Linux (Slackware 12). It hung with Firefox, but worked with Konqueror (under Xfce). Different plug-ins. I should look into this some more, but for now I have to give a point to the KDE team.
All in all, a good Saturday.
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